- Support Social Causes

RELIGION RELIGION NOTEBOOK

April 7, 1990

RELIGIOUS LEADERS should stand up for social causes in the world even when issues are muddled, said Rabbi Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University in New York, at ordination exercises for 100 rabbis. Lamm said they should speak out on problems even when ''the horizon is murky instead of bright, . . . positions gray instead of black and white, when alternatives are flawed instead of perfect, when you can't 'look it up' but have nothing but your judgment to consult.''